the latest from sirreene.
thanx, darlin'.
we know where you hide your explosives.
10 hours ago
••can ye pass the acid test?•• ye who enter here be afraid, but do what ye must -- to defeat your fear ye must defy it. time bomb tick tock? nervous tic talk? war on war?
At the beginning of 1945 the outlook became complicated.... That led to a fresh discussion of priorities. [skip] The most controversial aspect is the deliberate revival of 'terrorisation' as a prime aim. [skip] ...the distant city of Dresden was subjected to a devastating attack in mid-February—with the deliberate intention of wreaking havoc among the civil population and refugees—striking at the city centre, not the factories or railways.
"The most important job of the American President is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty or weakness during these troubling times, this world of ours will drift toward tragedy. This is not going to happen on my watch. We are steadfast, we are resolved".
-George W. Bush, November 2, 2004
so much for resolve.
Such high stakes compelled a host of unlikely bedfellows—scientists, environmental groups, business leaders, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers—to forge a radical plan to protect what's left. Drafted by the Corps a year ago, the Louisiana Coastal Area (LCA) project was initially estimated to cost up to 14 billion dollars over 30 years, almost twice as much as current efforts to save the Everglades. But the Bush Administration balked at the price tag, supporting instead a plan to spend up to two billion dollars over the next ten years to fund the most promising projects. Either way, Congress must authorize the money before work can begin.
—National Geographic, October 2004
It’s now clear that poor policies on the local, state, and federal levels all contributed to making Katrina a catastrophic storm in Louisiana. But of all the shocking facts emerging in the wake of this hurricane, perhaps this is the most shocking: Right now, with similar irresponsibility, we are ignoring raw data and reports that say every single coastal city in America – from New York to Savannah to Los Angeles – could soon become a New Orleans.
—Mike Tidwell
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed.
—First Annual Message to Congress, December 3,1861
ok, fellas
le's not fight over credit
it don' matter f
tom, dick, or colin sd it frs
wha matters:
le's not get 2 lit'ral here
it really means
u break it, u pay 4 it
no need 2 hang roun
n clean up ur mess
folk who run d place
cn handle it
jus pay wha u owe
n get d hell out o d sto!
That kind of individual initiative is what has made the U.S. a great country.the headline is "What Are the Lessons of Katrina?" [9/13/05]
Some of those limitations were built into the Constitution's limits on federal powers. President Bush could not nationalize the Louisiana National Guard without the consent of Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, which was not immediately forthcoming.apparently neither the author nor wsj's fact checker has ever taken the trouble to read the constitution: no such limit exists anywhere in the document.
[The Congress shall have Power] To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union....ii,§2,¶1 says
The President shall be Commander in Chief...of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States;...only i,§8,¶16 (where the word appears twice) gives states any militia-related power, as follows:
...reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;...the word "militia" also appears earlier in ¶16, saying congress may "...provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States...;" in the 2nd amendment's justification for the right to keep and bear arms; and in the 5th's exception to the requirement for grand jury indictments in criminal cases:
...in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger;...when i said the 5th might be relevant to the issue, it was because those last 3 words are the constitution's only direct suggestion that the guard may be used other than as a fighting force.
It ain't so much the things we don't know that get us in trouble. It's the things we know that just ain't so.the bush folk firmly believe they know what's best for america and the world, and they're equally firmly committed to furthering an agenda founded on that belief.
—attributed by various sources to Artemus Ward, Mark Twain, and Will Rogers
some folks look for answers
others look for fights
—grateful dead, playin' in the band
found this statement: "our homicide rate is at a thirty year low and still declining" on ur site.
u neglected to mention the steady decline began in 1994, right after passage of the brady bill (federal gun control).
heh heh.
"heh heh"
As proponents of stronger gun laws point out, the proof is in the numbers. "If the gun lobby's argument that giving everybody guns would make us a safer society were true, America would be the safest place on earth," said Jacques of the Massachusetts Senate. "And it's not."
Instead of spending more than $1 million a year on publishing books and articles for non-scientists and on other public relations efforts, the Discovery Institute should finance its own peer-reviewed electronic journal. This way, the organization could live up to its self-professed image: the doughty defenders of brave iconoclasts bucking the establishment.
For now, though, the theory they are promoting is exactly what George Gilder, a long-time affiliate of the Discovery Institute, has said it is: "Intelligent design itself does not have any content."
Since there is no content, there is no "controversy" to teach about in biology class. But here is a good topic for a high school course on current events and politics: Is intelligent design a hoax? And if so, how was it perpetrated?
—Daniel C. Dennett, a professor of philosophy at Tufts University, author of "Freedom Evolves" and "Darwin's Dangerous Idea."
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